Hurricane Sandy nearly scuttled the month-long Manhattan castration-murder trial of young Portuguese underwear model Renato Seabra — but the case is now set to continue testimony on Tuesday.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Daniel FitzGerald told jurors trial testimony will continue through the rest of next week, but that the trial will be down the entire following week — Thanksgiving week — in consideration of juror holiday obligations.

“We’re hoping to sum up on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving,” defense lawyer David Touger said today. “Jurors were told today that hopefully that will be the last week of the trial.”

Seabra, 22, has admitted that he killed his sugar daddy, fashion journalist Carlos Castro, 65, in their Times Square hotel room two years ago while on vacation from their native Portugal. But his lawyers say the over-kill brutality of the slaying and Seabra’s bizarre religious explanations afterward prove he is not guilty by reason of insanity.

The defense Jurors had been hearing psychiatric testimony in the case when the hurricane and resulting power outage shut down the lower Manhattan courthouse for a week.

News of the delay caused Seabra’s mother to burst into tears in the courtroom audience.

“Everybody wants the trial to resume as quickly as possible,” Touger said.